# Avulsions, enucleations at SISSON, DUPONT & CARDER, INC.
> OSHA SIR `20191213052` · 12/20/2019 · BLUE RIDGE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Planing mills
- **Secondary source:** Brooms, mops, and other cleaning tools
## Employer
- **Name:** SISSON, DUPONT & CARDER, INC.
- **Location:** 75 Appalachian Hwy, BLUE RIDGE, GEORGIA, 30513
- **NAICS:** 423310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a planer wheel with a paper towel when he was pulled into the machine, ripping the skin from his arms and requiring stitches.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*